This was a very enlightening article. It doesn’t justify the need of Springsteen security to tackle concertgoers, wrest phones out of their hands, and stomp on them until they are dead (okay, so they don’t do that, but they certainly treat you like a criminal), but it does explain a lot.
Question: why aren’t artists talking about this interviews? Why aren’t there MTV documentaries? Are we too stupid to comprehend that there is a real problem when everyone uses their phone? Because I gotta tell ya that I never believed it to be real until I had it explained to me, chalking it up to idiotic control-freak, egotistical behavior. Is it just not considered rock and roll enough to justify discussing?